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Metairie man found shot dead in Hahnville

Updated on January 10, 2017 at 9:37 AMPosted on January 9, 2017 at 6:14 PM

Highway 3160 Hahnville

Deputies found the body of Ryan Joseph Dubuc around 9:45 a.m. Monday (Jan. 9, 2017) on a side road near Highway 3160. He had suffered more than one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on the scene, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Detectives Monday evening (Jan. 9) found a pickup truck owned by a 28-year-old Metairie man who found fatally shot on a back road in Hahnville earlier in the day, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

Deputies found the body of Ryan Joseph Dubuc around 9:45 a.m. on a side road near Highway 3160. He had suffered more than one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on the scene, the Sheriff's Office said.

Investigators believe Dubuc left his home in Metairie around 5:30 a.m. Monday and headed to his workplace in St. Charles.

Dubuc's truck, a gray 2006 GMC Sierra, was located in a sugar cane field in a LaPlace subdivision, the sheriff's office announced at 7:30 p.m.

Anyone with information on Ryan Dubuc's death is asked to call Detective Thomas Plaisance of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office at 985.783.1135 or call 985.783.6807.

Correction: Ryan Dubuc's age was initially reported as 20 based on information provided by the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office. His correct age is 28.